Spree Commerce
Open-source headless ecommerce platform with a REST API and Next.js storefront
Alternative to: Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud
v5.0.0
2025-04-03Announcing Spree 5: The Biggest Open-Source Release Ever
We’re thrilled to unveil Spree 5—the most feature-packed open-source release in Spree Commerce’s history! This milestone is more than just an upgrade. It transforms the platform into a future-ready, enterprise-friendly eCommerce solution. And it’s completely free to use and customize as you require.
New Admin Dashboard Experience
Spree 5 introduces a fully redesigned admin dashboard with improved UX for a day-to-day productivity boost:
- New Admin Dashboard UX: Redesigned experience for managing Store settings, Products, Orders, with multiple key metrics charts for more day-to-day visibility.
- Store Standards & Formats: Set store-wide units like size, weight, and time zone — and customize them per Product.
- Digital products: A streamlined digital checkout flow. Now you can also set a download expiry date and a maximum number of downloads for product-related digital files.
- Shipping Method Management: Improved setup experience with ability to set estimated delivery times.
- Bulk Operations: Perform bulk actions on Products and Customers to save time at scale when merchandising or performing customer service activities.
- Tags: Tag Products for easy merchandising and Orders or Customers for filtering and bulk admin operations.
- Automatic Taxons: Auto-assign Products to appear in Categories or Collections based on conditions such as Tags, availability date, sales status, or Vendor.
- Promotions Management: A completely revamped and more intuitive promotions UI
- Currency-Based Promotion Rules: Apply discounts only in selected currencies.
- Coupon Code Batches: Generate and export unique coupon codes into a CSV format.
- Export to CSV: Export large data sets (orders, products, customers) for offline manipulation and reporting.
- Returns & Refunds: An improved returns & refunds flow to make daily operations smoother and more intuitive.
- New Reporting Engine: Robust new reports with a CSV export feature and a flexible architecture for building custom reports.
Full announcement
Read the full announcement here
We want to thank all open source contributors that participated in this effort! ❤️
New Contributors
- @mintlify made their first contribution in https://github.com/spree/spree/pull/12352
- @chrislaai made their first contribution in https://github.com/spree/spree/pull/12468
- @henrikbjorn made their first contribution in https://github.com/spree/spree/pull/12491
- @dimidev made their first contribution in https://github.com/spree/spree/pull/12496
- @asecondwill made their first contribution in https://github.com/spree/spree/pull/12529
- @caiodsc made their first contribution in https://github.com/spree/spree/pull/12562
- @chandruv21 made their first contribution in https://github.com/spree/spree/pull/12595
Full Changelog: https://github.com/spree/spree/compare/v4.10.0…v5.0.0